ISLAMABAD, Sept 14: The main gates of the Parliament House were slammed shut in the face of about a dozen members of the combined opposition who were trying to arrange a meeting between the interior minister and families of five people who had been reportedly picked up by security agencies but then went missing for the past one and a half years.

The legislators pledged to take action against the rude behaviour and vowed to support the families of the missing people “until their honourable recovery”.

Family members of Atiqur Rahman, Faisal Farooq, Masood, Majid, and Mansoor were staging a sit-in outside the Parliament House when some lawmakers of the combined opposition came out to express solidarity and asked them to accompany them inside the Parliament House so that they could arrange a meeting with the interior minister.

According to reports, Majid has already been extradited to the detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Faisal Farooq and Mansoor were picked up by police while travelling to Lahore to attend a Tablighi congregation.

The opposition members and the family members of the missing people were stopped from entering by the security staff by locking the gate from inside. The gates were only opened when legislators assured the security men that the family members of the missing people would not be taken inside the Parliament House.